 Lords and Commons of England, consider what Nation it is whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the governors : a Nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach...  Cassell's library of English literature, selected, ed. and arranged by H. Morley - Page 146by Cassell, ltd - 1876Full view - About this book
 | American Medical Association - 1850 - 516 pages
...and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit; acute VOL. III. — 13 to invent, subtile and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of...point, the highest that human capacity can soar to." In the American character almost every element which in Europe is reckoned to be national, is transfused... | |
 | American Medical Association - 1850 - 516 pages
...in our midst this day, he could with no less truth address them to our own : — to invent, subtile and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of...point, the highest that human capacity can soar to." In the American character almost every element which in Europe is reckoned to be national, is transfused... | |
 | Charles V. Kraitsir - 1852 - 252 pages
...Ye are, and whereof Ye are the governors. A nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious anil piercing spirit, acute to invent, subtle and sinewy...studies of learning in her deepest sciences have been so antient and so eminent among us, thai writers of good antiquity and ablest judges have been persuaded... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1853 - 378 pages
...persuaded of her liberty." " * * * * " Lords and Commons of England ! consider what nation it is whereof ye are the governors ; a nation, not slow and dull, but...sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point that human capacity can soar to. * * * Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation, rousing... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1854 - 796 pages
...AND LONDON. Lords and Commons of England ! consider what nation it ia whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the governors : a nation not slow and dull, but...reach of any point the highest that human capacity can scar to. Therefore the studies of learning in her deepest sciences have been so ancient and so eminent... | |
 | Patrick Joseph Murray - 1854 - 158 pages
...nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit ; aente to invent, aubtile and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of...point the highest that human capacity can soar to."— MILTON. THE AEEOFAGITICA. Reprinted, with additions, from The Irish Quarterly Review, JVo. 15, September,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 pages
...AND LONDON. Lords and Commons of England ! consider what nation it is whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the governors: a nation not slow and dull, but...eminent among us, that writers of good antiquity and able judgment have been persuaded that even the school of Pythagoras and the Persian wisdom took beginning... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 444 pages
...Cripplegate.] Lords and Commons of England ! consider what nation it is whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the governors ; a nation not slow and dull, but...eminent among us, that writers of good antiquity, and able judgment, have been persuaded that even the school of Pythagoras, and the Persian wisdom, took... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 676 pages
...whereof ye are the governors : a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piereing spirit ; acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse,...eminent among us, that writers of good antiquity, and able judgment, have been persuaded that even the school of Pythagoras, and the Persian wisdom, took... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1856 - 516 pages
...whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the teachers,—a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, piercing spirit; acute to invent, subtle and sinewy...point the highest that human capacity can soar to Now once again, by all concurrence of signs, and by the general instinct of holy and devout men, as... | |
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